Tuva is back and better than ever as she returns to Gavrik to join the hunt for her missing friend Tammy.

But Tammy isn’t the only person to have gone missing, another young woman has also disappeared escalating the man hunt to desperate levels. With no clues to go one apart from a small splatter of blood found outside Tammy’s work place the community comes together to search the inhospitable Utgard forest.

Packed to the brim with some of the shadiest characters in recent fictional history and some of the most spectacular settings, this book is jam-packed full of atmosphere and tension. On top of that it has one of my favourite female protagonists in recent history.

This has been one of my favourite books in the whole of 2019 and a brilliant book to mark the start of a new year.

My review maybe lacking but the book most certainly is not!

Be prepared to enter the dark, creepy depths of Utgard forest and come face to face with some characters that match their surroundings.

If you have read the first two books in this series then you will know what to expect with the knowledge that this is his best book so far, but if you are new to this series then don’t fear, there is enough backstory to make this read just as well as a standalone novel. However, saying that, I can not recommend all three books highly enough and all three need to be on everyones tbr pile!

Black River is due to be published on 12 March 2020 and is available to preorder now from the link below or your local bookshop.

A massive thank you to the author Will Dean, publishers Oneworld Publications and NetGalley for my copy of this book in exchange for an honest and independent review. ( )